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Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that Mark Shuttleworth has announced the next release in the horribly alliterative Ubuntu family, "Karmic Koala." The new version hopes to include a newer, shinier, faster startup, better small screen support, a spruced-up desktop look (no more brown), and many minor tweaks and updates. "A newborn Koala spends about six months in the family before it heads off into the wild alone. Sounds about perfect for an Ubuntu release plan! I'm looking forward to seeing many of you in Barcelona, and before that, at a Jaunty release party. Till then, cheers."

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  1. Really, is it that bad? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one who likes the brown color scheme?

    I find that it's easy on the eyes without being outright drab, but maybe that's just me.

    1. Re:Really, is it that bad? by DrLang21 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I quite enjoy the brown color scheme. It looks clean and professional while being easy on the eyes.

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      I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
    2. Re:Really, is it that bad? by Aphoxema · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I've got sick on blue from Windows and OS X, Ubuntu's theme was liberating when I first set eyes on in and until the Darkroom theme came along I never really felt the need to change it.

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      "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
  2. The problem with eucalyptus ... by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... is that it scatters its seeds by explosion, into the remains of a forest fire (which it promotes via its extremely flammable sap and the tinder pile of leaves and shed bark it creates around itself - apparently "in the hope of" getting the fire started B-) ). A row of eucalyptus trees during a fire can become the equivalent of a walking artillery barrage targeting a fuel dump.

    So I certainly wouldn't want to compute on a eucalyptus cluster - even if it is a "cloud" floating far away (like over the Berkeley Hills - high enough to be visible from I5 north of Sacramento). I'd worry about it taking out the data center and my data with it and "distributing" it up to the tropopause and onward with the prevailing wind.

    As for my laptop, no WAY I'll install any eucalyptus package on that. It's got enough problem with those lithium batteries with the energy density of a hand grenade without adding something more with the energy density of napalm.

    = = = =

    And I thought Ubuntu had an unfortunate choice of names. Good grief!

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    Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
  3. Re:Meanwhile Linux Continues To Be A Trainwreck by Radhruin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've noticed a lot (A LOT) of problems along these lines, and it really gets to me (I suspect that the metrics for a lot of the fonts that are distributed with Ubuntu are completely off)... but how do I categorize and report the bug in such a way that it's useful? Take a screencap of a website that uses a specific font that looks terrible? Is that a bug in Firefox, Cairo, the font itself, Ubuntu, or what?